Paris, March 27, 2025 – Astran, a French company specialized in operational resilience, announces the launch of Astrania (Astran Intelligent Agent), a new tool designed to preserve the vital operations of businesses during IT crises.
Cybersecurity threatened by a tense geopolitical landscape
In a tense geopolitical landscape marked by cyberattacks (originating from Russia), companies and institutions face major disruptions threatening the continuity of their vital operations.
In this context, during his address on the conflict in Ukraine on March 5, President Emmanuel Macron highlighted the threats facing France and the 15,000 essential structures that underpin the country. In response to these growing risks, the Senate recently passed a new law aimed at strengthening the resilience of critical infrastructure and enhancing cybersecurity.
To ensure business continuity, organizations require emergency platforms capable of maintaining the stability of vital operations such as paying strategic suppliers, processing salaries, managing urgent purchases, and issuing invoices.
Astran: A resilience platform for vital operations of strategic enterprises
Founded in March 2021 by Yosra Jarraya, Gilles Seghaier and Yahya Jarraya, Astran is the first company in the world to combine secure data and process management to support the operational resilience of strategic enterprises.
Astran enables businesses to ensure continuity of operations during cyberattacks or IT failures, while providing full traceability, compliance, and real-time monitoring.
Launched in production in October 2024, Astran’s AlwaysReady® platform has already been adopted by major strategic groups such as Eiffage and VINCI, and was awarded the Most Promising European Cybersecurity Solution by the CISO Choice Award of ECSO in March 2024. Astran was also featured in WIRED’s list of Europe’s Hottest Start-ups in October 2024 and won the French government’s I-Nov Innovation Challenge the same year.
The AlwaysReady® platform also ensures high availability and confidentiality of vital data in the cloud. Based on data fragmentation technology, it guarantees data security without the need for complex encryption key management. This approach has been recognized by the CNIL as an effective solution to prevent the transfer of sensitive data outside the European Union. Tailored for strategic enterprises, Astran is also SOC 2 certified.
Optimized vital processes and accelerated responsiveness with Astrania
Astran is now expanding further with the launch of Astrania, the intelligent agent for vital operations resilience. In just a few minutes, users can build vital processes based on documents, written instructions, or even voice commands. Integrated with the AlwaysReady® platform, Astrania empowers business leaders to take ownership of their operational resilience simply and effectively.
A first real-world application of Astrania was tested by Sanofi in the finance department to maintain critical payment operations during an IT crisis.
« I explained to Astran what the vital process needed to do, and Astrania immediately drafted the workflow for me; simple and efficient. Astran is a real accelerator of operational resilience in the face of IT disruptions. », shared a senior finance executive at a CAC 40 company.
Astran also won the “IT Security” award on March 18 at the Treasury Innovation Day, and was recently recognized by Challenges magazine among the 100 Start-ups to Invest In for 2025.
About Astran: Astran is a French software company specializing in operational resilience, founded in March 2021 by Yosra Jarraya, Gilles Seghaier, and Yahya Jarraya. Astran’s mission is to enable businesses to maintain their vital operations during an IT crisis by centralizing the necessary vital processes and data in a simple, operational, and secure way. Astran has filed two patents for its highly available and secure storage platform (FR3146220). Astran and its founders have received numerous awards, including the 2024 CISO Award for Most Promising European Cybersecurity Solution in Germany, as well as the I-Nov State Innovation Award (France 2030). The American magazine Wired selected Astran for its "Europe's 100 Hottest Start-ups" list in October 2024.
